Queer and religious alliances in family law politics and beyond / edited by Nausica Palazzo and Jeffrey A. Redding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palazzo , Nausica, editor.

Redding, Jeff, editor.

Series:

Anthem Law and Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic relations.

Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation.

Same-sex marriage.

Families--Religious aspects.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2022.

Summary:

Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to expand family law's recognition beyond the traditional state-sponsored family. Various religious groups have shown an interest in promoting alternative family structures. For example, certain Muslim and Mormon communities have advocated for polygamy, thereby aligning with queer groups' interest in overcoming the engrafting of monogamy into state law. Advocacy by North American religious conservatives for reforms in favor of non-conjugal families and against same-sex marriage overlaps with certain queer efforts to legitimize friendships and non-traditional families more generally. <br><br>This book explores these potential areas of queer and religious political cooperation-including limitations and principled reservations to such cooperation. It then looks at additional future arenas of queer and religious political cooperation going beyond family law.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Introduction

Part I. MAPPING THE CONCEPTUAL TERRAIN

Chapter 1. Secularism, Same-Sex Relations, and Legal Pluralism

Part II. RELIGIOUS-QUEER PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 2. Custom, Preference, or Nature?: Mormon Polygamy, Same-Sex Marriage, and Natural Law Theory

Chapter 3. Cleaving Marriage: Appraising the Conservative Blowback after Same-Sex Marriage

Chapter 4. A Multiplication of Blessings: Families and LGBTQ Rights within the Waldensian Church

Part III. QUEER-RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 5. 'Ohana as a Way of Life: Queer Friendship in the Mediterranean Regime

Chapter 6. The Abolition of Legal Marriage in Israel as a Potential Queer-Religious Project

Chapter 7. Queer and Religious Convergences around Nonconjugal Couples: What Could Go Wrong?

Chapter 8. Queer Politics, Consensual Nonmonogamy, and Religion: Notes on the Ethics of Coalition Work

Part IV. FUTURE TRAJECTORIES

Chapter 9. Achieving Equality without a Constitution: Lessons from Israel for Queer Family Law

Chapter 10. Queer and Religious Political Alliances in the Pandemic Trump Era

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2022).

ISBN:

1-83998-308-6

1-83998-309-4

OCLC:

1334105385